Better lives through music
From Sistema Fellow Julie Davis... I came to understand the magic of El Sistema while traveling in a twelve-passenger van with a broken air conditioner amidst the rural Venezuelan state of Guárico. Too...
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From Sistema Fellow Albert Oppenheimer… After five weeks in Venezuela for our immersion in the teaching, learning, and community of El Sistema, we found ourselves seated at a table with the founder and...
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From Sistema Fellow Aisha Bowden… As an educator, I am a true supporter of learning abroad. Imagine my excitement when I learned I was accepted into a Fellowship that included a five-week El Sistema...
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From Sistema Fellow Alysia Lee… Last year, I kicked off my interview for the New England Conservatory Fellows program with this short introduction. “Hello, my name is Alysia Lee. I am a singer, and I...
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From Sistema Fellow Stephanie Lin Hsu… We sat huddled on two metal fold-up chairs on a half-balcony while a student rehearsal ensued below, sitting close together to be able to hear one another’s...
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When Venezuelan musician and catalyst Jose Abreu founded his music education program El Sistema (“The System”) in 1975, he assembled a band of 11 local kids to make classical music together. Three...
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Meet the Sistema Fellows: Lorrie Heagy Develops Active Citizenship Through Music Education By, Jamia Wilson In 2009, internationally acclaimed Venezuelan reformer Jose Abreu unveiled his desire to...
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How 50 music teachers are creating 5,000 musician-citizens across the US,...
Jose Antonio Abreu has created a web of youth orchestras across Venezuela, and now across the United States. Photo: El Sistema On a drizzly spring day in Boston earlier this month, three dozen...
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Why you should care about Beethoven: A talented trumpeter makes his case
Stanford Thompson, a trumpeter from Atlanta and graduate of the Sistema Fellows Program, sees music as a powerful tool for social development. Photo: Anna Wu By Stanford Thompson, Sistema Fellow, Class...
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Why wait for the dust to settle? A Sistema-trained musician from Minnesota...
ComMUSICation students perform at Western Sculpture Garden for a mobile art fair during summer camp this year. The Minnesota-based program was inspired by the original El Sistema program in Venezuela –...
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